Re: dist upgrade

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote:

> Pann McCuaig <pann@ourmanpann.com> writes:
>
> > You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to
> > the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato
> > current. apt-get upgrade is what you want.
>
> See apt-get(8).
> 'dist-upgrade' is just more intelligent when it comes to dependency
> resolution than 'upgrade'.


I think the rest of the line is worth mention: "...apt-get has a "smart"
conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most
important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary"

Another option is to do a "dselect-upgrade"; this will try to honor the
changes made by dselect to the Status field of available packages.

[]s,
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